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Combinatorics of geometrically distributed random variables: Value and position of the r-th left-to-right maximum

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

For words of length n, generated by independent geometric random variables, we consider the average value and the average position of the r-th left-to-right maximum, for fixed r and large n.

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@article{arxiv.math/9812134,
  title  = {Combinatorics of geometrically distributed random variables: Value and position of the r-th left-to-right maximum},
  author = {Arnold Knopfmacher and Helmut Prodinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9812134},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages